Barry Cassidy Presentation Coatesville RDA Meeting May 21, 2012

Barry Cassidy's presentation to City of Coatesville RDA MAY 21, 2012

 

Above is a recording of Barry's closing statement. (About one minute)

This is a transcription of that closing statement: 

“I see the housing as your problem. I clearly see that you need you need newer housing programs… That is a proven system that works that has training and back up. You could have local people, people from Coatesville learning how to do this from people from St. Louis or people from Philadelphia or people from wherever that have been through the same thing. It's almost like a support group, in a way in terms of technical assistance.”

This is from his handout at the meeting. The entire document is below:

“I believe that Coatesville has a housing problem, which needs to be addressed through a formal program. I would suggest a Neighborhood Housing Services (NHS) style program.  I would recommend that government and foundation grants be secured to hire tenant counselors to create homeownership opportunities. The homeownership effort would work parallel with a home improvement program to enable the current homeowners to improve their residence.”

This is a recording of the entire presentation. It’s 27 minutes: